1 Samuel 30:3

3 So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire, and their wives and their sons and their daughters were taken captives.

1 Samuel 30:3 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 30:3

So David and his men came to the city
Or however to the place where it had stood, and where it now lay in ruins:

and, behold, [it was] burnt with fire;
the whole city was laid in ashes:

and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken
captives;
as it appeared afterwards; for upon their first coming they knew not but they were all destroyed; and which they might reasonably suppose from their former treatment of them, unless there were any left upon the spot which could inform them how things were, which does not appear, and which must make their distress the greater.

1 Samuel 30:3 In-Context

1 And it came to pass when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day that the Amalekites had invaded the Negev and Ziklag and had smitten Ziklag and burned it with fire.

2 And they had taken the women captives that were therein, from the youngest to the oldest; they did not kill any but carried them away and went on their way.

3 So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire, and their wives and their sons and their daughters were taken captives.

4 Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep.

5 And David’s two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail, who had been the wife of Nabal of Carmel.